GARRY GRANT
Starta Arta member
Garry Grant (b. 1971) is a visual artist based in New York City. With a focus on abstraction, his work is inspired by the materials he employs and the use of color and texture. The tone of Grant’s work conveys a sense of rhythm, the forms expressive movement. A master gilder, he uses gold, silver, and copper leaf for the underpinning of his large-scale works, building these variegated metals onto canvas and wood to create vibrancy and varying degrees of depth to the background. He often adds pressure to the surface to bring about a cracked-pattern effect, adding a rich texture to the composition. For the foreground, he applies acrylic paint and other pigments to the canvas by hand, manipulating the material until attenuated forms cover the surface. More recently, his practice has expanded to include the creation of 3-dimensional structures on handmade paper and multi-dimensional wood objects on panel which is now the evolution of his new work.
Grant’s work is held in private collections and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Detroit, Dallas, and Atlanta. In 2021, Grant was nominated for the 34th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University in Louisiana, follow by several group exhibitions including Starta Arta, a new exhibition space in the Flatiron district in New York City. In 2020, Grant is now represented by UNREPD Gallery in Los Angeles, a new gallery space focusing on works by African American Artist of color. In August 2018, his paintings were featured in a solo exhibition at North of History, an art gallery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side owned by award-winning architect Gene Kaufman. In October 2017, he was one of six artists featured in The Detroit Diaspora, an exhibition curated by Resident Artist Michael Kelly Williams and gallerist Cledie Taylor.
